As this is a reverse co-ed tournament teams will consist of 3 men and 3 women on the court and NO gender touch rule. Men must attack from behind the 10’ line.

(You may have as many subs on the roster as you wish, but you must always have 3 men/3 women on the court.)

In addition to vball, we plan on having a bake sale (with chocolate chip cookies and other goodies) and other fundraising activities.

There will be a maximum of 15 teams (as we have room for 3 nets only). The fee is $180 per team.

Current Entries:

AA

A/BB

Recreational

Please come out and support Rooftime and Hudson River Housing!

Rooftime 26 Recap

Rooftime 26 participants!

We would like to thank everyone who came out to support Rooftime 26. The two day outdoor tournament this year raised about $6400, and combined with our indoor tournament in February (and some cash from pickup/leagues) we raised very close to $10,000 this year for Hudson River Housing. Thank you all for your support, donations, time, help, patience, playing, reffing, and everyone who prayed for no rain!

Clearly, the theme for Rooftime 26 was “bumps”:

1. We had a baby (bump) announcement – big congratulations to Molly and Luke Jenkins! Our first ever baby announcement at Rooftime?

2. We had a team named “Baby Bumps, Set, Spike” win quads. Those custom crafted team shirts were clearly intimidating! Or was it the extra player on the court? We’re all shocked that Kevin “Four Leaf” Boyd won something…again!

3. Speaking of bumps, there were 5 instances this weekend where we had to ask a team to bump up to the next level, to make the numbers work. Everybody agreed immediately and with enthusiasm. Thank you very much to all 5 teams!

4. We had two different winners for the furthest traveler – on Saturday, it was the Gowers from North Carolina. On Sunday, the Gowers got bumped off by Anna Sullivan, from the quads team Party Pandas, who was visiting us from Washington State! That may be a Rooftime record!

5. We had about 10 teams of juniors getting their first bumps in their first outdoor tournament ever – thank you to NY Elite volleyball club for signing them up!

6. Those speed bumps coming into the parking lot are awful!

7. We had a couple other unfortunate bumps… two sprained ankles at this year’s tournament. Kelly Rogers on Saturday and Lauren Wilson on Sunday. We all hope you feel better and heal up quickly.

Potential improvements for Rooftime 27:

1.We’re strongly considering for Rooftime 27 having reverse coed/quads on Saturday and Men’s/Women’s on Sunday. Trust me, it’ll be fun!

2.If we’re at the same field next year, we will ask the EFK rec center for 2 porta-potties on day one. And at minimum we’ll ask them to place them in a spot where we don’t have to smell them all day! #firsttimefieldissues

OK, now on to the important THANK YOU’s! Specifically, we’d like to thank:

Frank Sanfillipo: HVV provided nets, equipment, etc. every Rooftime. We could not do this tournament w/o Frank.

A very big thanks to Tim Milholm for stepping up and taking care of the trailer overnight, this was incredibly helpful!

The front desk: Caitlin Patry, Lauren Wilson, Lindsay Burns. The most hectic job at Rooftime – thank you so much to these 3!

Hudson River Housing: thank you very much to Jeff, Melissa, and Alex for coming out to visit us each morning. Thank you also to Melissa for some outstanding photos. (credit: Surprise photography)http://surprisephotography.com/

Reffing subs - on Sunday AM, there was a little confusion on two courts about work assignments (one of them was my assignment!). Thank you to Steve Anania, Lindsay Burns, Christy Ubel, and Jeremy Kempisty for stepping up!

East Fishkill Rec Center - this is our first time working with them, and we got the field at a discount, and for the most part things went smoothly. Not too shabby for a brand new field. Thank you to everyone at the tournament for obeying the park rules!!!

And, given the mid-July heat, it was impressive that we had a handful of folks earning prizes both days. Big congrats to: Will Klunk, Lauren Wilson, Addison Baxter, and Barry Gower. Just playing two days in a row is impressive. Placing two days in a row is incredible.

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** If you have not yet received your awards, please blame Anthony Angelucci****

***yes, Anthony, we give out awards at Rooftime

**** in all seriousness, thank you for that bag of ice Anthony

If we failed to mention you (or a friend), please accept our apologies. All during the day, we noticed people helping out in one way or another (cleaning up the bathrooms, gathering trash, helping with nets, ...), and I'm sure we forgot to include someone. Please accept our apologies!

Thank you to everyone who participated in this year's tournament, your support makes a big difference in the continued success of HRH.

Rooftime 26

Rooftime 26 - Sunday Tournament is ON!!! Bring a tent & umbrella :)

Rooftime Event: July 14th and 15th

McGrath Field

890 Route 82

Hopewell Junction, NY 12533

McGrath Field is located at the East Fishkill Recreation Center. The parking lot for the field is not accessible from the main entrance to the East Fishkill Rec Center.

Please use the address above for your GPS, turn in off of Route 82 at the Community Center and drive around back to the field.

There is no Pavilion so please bring tents. There is a porta-potty at the field and a short walk to the restrooms. The Rec center also features tennis courts, skate park, playground, basketball courts and a hiking path. The Rec center is dog friendly, but all dogs must be leashed.

Tournament details:

Saturday, July 14th will be Men's doubles and Women's doubles. For each type of play, we will offer B, BB, A, AA, and Open levels. Prizes were given to 1st and 2nd place at each level.

Sunday, July 15th will be Reverse Coed doubles with B, BB, A, AA, and Open levels. Also, Sunday will be Quads (men's height net), where we offer Recreational, Skilled, and 'Killer' Quads. There are no restrictions on # of men and women on the court (up to 4), and there is no gender based "touch" rule.

Under The Roof VI - Great Success!

Our 6th indoor tournament to benefit Hudson River Housing, Inc was a great success!

We raised over $3500 for the charity :)

Many Thanks to:

Mid-Hudson Athletic Center (MAC) for use of the facility

All our volunteers throughout the day

AND

All 15 teams for showing up to play and bringing their best!

Rooftime 25 Recap

Rooftime 25 crew, participants, and spectators –

Greetings everyone – we can’t believe how fast the weekend went. Rooftime 25 is in the books!

We had an AMAZING turnout for the weekend, and we can’t thank everyone enough for coming out to support Rooftime. This tournament continues to be a great combination of volleyball in support of a worthy cause. And it’s awesome to see people come from so far away to support this tournament! We had well over ~ 120 competitors each day, and I’m sure we didn’t get a chance to speak to everyone, but we sincerely welcome your support.

Tallying both outdoor days, as well as our indoor tournament in February, and including all raffle/T-shirt/cookie/serving contest support, plus Dennis’ “bucket” from pickup, as well as all the very generous contributions to the donation website this year, the total funds raised came out to over $12,000 !!! For those of you keeping track at home, that beats the previous Rooftime record of $10,688 – somebody call Guinness! (and remember this for the Rooftime 50 trivia questions :)

We can’t wait until Rooftime 26 next year, and hope you can join us again! Congratulations to all our volleyball winners, and to all our raffle winners!

We did have a bit of rain on Saturday, and I do apologize to the ladies in Women’s A – we probably called that one a bit too early for the raffle. At the time lots of folks were asking to wrap it up. Lesson learned, we’ll be more patient next time. And for the few folks that finished playing in the rain, I’m very glad none of you got injured! We did have a couple of injuries on Sunday, but fortunately none requiring an ambulance. (I hope those folks and their injuries were not too bad)

We’d also like to thank our fantastic Rooftime crew. In particular, we’d like to thank:

Frank Sanfillipo – Frank (and Hudson Valley Volleyball) generously provides all the nets, the coolers, the equipment, secures the field for us and donates all his time on both days. This tournament truly would not happen without Frank. Thank you Frank!

The front office: Lauren Wilson and Caitlin Patry. Check in, Waivers, Late fees, questions, requests for late starts – they do it all! Thank you so much to Lauren and Caitlin for all their hard work this weekend, and also getting up super early to volunteer their time.

The net crew & serving contest: Frank Sanfallipo, KJ Cecere, Steve Anania, Tim Milholm, Nihad Hadzic, Julia Tyles, Eric Lewis, Nicole Kellog, Kevin Boyd, Christine LaGuardia, Jim Huenniger, Molly Jenkins, Ryan Burns, Christy Rodrigues, Jaime & James Zoller, Michelle Jacobson, Jackie Strothenke, Frank and Bria Le (and Jeremy Kempisty - in spirit) - thank you all so much for all your help this weekend! It’s not glamorous to get up early to set up 17 nets, but this crew was there, many of them both days!

The cookie bakers: Cheryl Hadzic, Jeremy Kempisty, Christy Rodrigues, Amanda Milholm, Addie Ferrer, Steve Anania, Jaime Zoller – did I miss anyone? Thank you all so much for the sugar rush both days!

Master Raffle & Cookie seller: James Zoller. This young man worked tirelessly for 2 days and helped us out tremendously!

The Rooftime website - we need to thank Nihad Hadzic & Lindsay Burns for maintaining the website – great work both of you!

Hudson River Housing - This year we had Kristine Cortwright and Elizabeth Celaya come out to support Rooftime. It was great to meet Kristine and see Elizabeth again!

Thanks to all of our sponsors and raffle prizes donors:

The Mid Hudson Athletic Center (thank you to John Mack and Dean Lombardo), in particular, for their support of Under the Roof every year in February.

A huge thank you to Dr. Erik Uuksulainen of True North Chiropractic and his wonderful wife who came out to donate their chiropractic services and advice to anyone/everyone. They were a huge hit and I hope we can have them back next year!

There were a few notable milestones and things to mention from Rooftime 25:

It’s been a long time since we’ve had 2 nets of Men’s Open, 2 nets of Women’s Open, and 2 nets of Reverse Open – I know there are many options for tournaments to play, so thanks to all the Open players for coming out to a charity tournament.

Likewise, it’s been a LONG time since we’ve had 2 nets of Men’s BB, 2 nets of Women’s BB, and 2 nets of Rev Coed BB… lots of first timers on those pools, so I hope you all had a great time and come back next year. (As well as to HVV tourneys)

I believe this is the first time ever we’ve had a woman in the finals of Men’s Open. (much less in Men’s Open at all) Maximum respect for Debbie Schendel.

11 year old Kylie Rodrigues played her first outdoor tournament (in quads) and was on the winning team for Recreational Quads! And an even larger achievement – she had to put up with Don Peterson all day - welcome to outdoor tourneys Kylie!

Lauren Wilson became only the 4th person (in the history of available Rooftime records) to win Open on both Saturday and Sunday. (The 3 others are Stefanie Carrington, Tina Fumo and Carlos Tollinche – that’s some good company to be in!)

We had several long distance travelers - my brother Ryan and sister in law Lynher came from Austin Texas. Stephanie and Spencer Hilland came from Tampa, Florida. And Barry Gower and the entire Gower family drove up from North Carolina. Thank you all so much for coming from so far to play Rooftime! We’ll need to get travelers from further than Austin Texas to break a record!

My 1 year old nephew Luke came to his first Rooftime ever! (As did several other Future Rooftimers!)

And thank you to everyone who helped out, came to watch, played, or in general supported the Rooftime effort. We hope to see you at Under the Roof VI in February at the MAC,and Rooftime 26 next July. Your support makes a huge difference in the continued success of Hudson River Housing. See you on the court!